In the 1st Episode of The Strength Connection Podcast, Mike and our special guest, StrongFirst Master Instructor Fabio Zonin will talk about a minimalist bodybuilding approach, controlling your full body asymmetrically, Mike’s love-hate relationship with pressing and The Victorious Program

Join us in this insightful and captivating talk!

In this chapter you will discover:

(2:30) Introducing our special guest StrongFirst Master Instructor Fabio Zonin @x_fab_69

(3:00) The Victorious Program

(3:50) 95 - 83 Kg increasing muscle size

(4:50) A minimalist bodybuilding approach

(5:00) Working on 3-6 movement patterns BTS 3x3

(9:20) Going to exhaustion with minisets

(10:10) Technical rep max

(11:20) How to apply Fabio’s new method step by step

(12:40) Changing the muscle distribution

(14:00) Hard to find a pattern

(14:40) Mike talks strength endurance

(15:40) Fabio’s technique for focused learning

(16:00) How Mike met Fabio in the CKFMS

(17:10) “Try to make it more digestible” - Fabio Zonin

(17:50) “Not only improve the quality and quantity of the information you teach, but also the way you communicate it” - Fabio Zonin

(18:50) “You know you are a great coach, if you can easily communicate” - Mike Kurkowski

(19:20) “It’s not the content, it’s the way you deliver the content” - Fabio Zonin

(21:20) Using ourselves for 1st test of a new program 1) caring about people safety 2) you know the feedback is accurate 

(23:00) “When you respect the weight you don’t lose focus” - Fabio Zonin

(26:40) Injuries are not a result of a heavy weight, but lost focus

(29:20) “Pain is a good teacher” - Fabio Zonin

(37:00) Mike’s love-hate relationship with pressing

(37:30) The bodypress program, shout out to Pavel Tsatsouline @strongfirst

(39:10) Controlling your full body asymmetrically

(39:40) “If I would be a musician, I would pick the drummer” - Fabio Zonin

(40:00) The creation process for the Bodypress Program

(44:50) Your emotions are created with your facial expressions and in your body language

(46:40) “Every time you get into the press program you feel really good with it, it lights you up for the rest of the day” - Jon Engum engums_extremetraining

(47:00) Funny story of Fabio and John

(50:20) Shout out to Pavel Macek @@pavelmacekcom

(51:20) Keep it legal, keep it safe

(59:30) Learning universal strength principles and apply them in everything

(59:40) Teaching people how to control their body, and the right tension and breath

(1:00:40) Changing the way you generate tension

(1:04:30) Powerful analogy story

(1:07:30) Intuitive training

(1:12:30) “Physiology drives psychology” - Mike Kurkowski

(1:13:10) “Self improvement is addictive” - Mike Kurkowski

(1:14:30) Go check The Victorious Program

(1:15:40) How to reach out to Fabio Zonin [email protected]